I think it would be almost fair to call or season finished after this game.

It's a long list of non performers but Fritta not laying a single tackle sims him up.

It's one thing to be out of form but not laying a tackle speaks about intent and attitude I'm afraid.

Props to Chandler and JV today but I'm struggling to find any other positives.

I feel like the wheels fell off today and this will be like the Freo game last year.

It's early in the season and I think last week exhausted us but the ot was the skill level that troubled me all day.

Plus the predicament I mentioned pregame about not having a fwd line three years in a row. So there's that.

Goody is officially under the pump and that's not easy for a premier coach. 

1 minute ago, waynewussell said:

Lindsay was good

Oliver can hold his head up

Chandler's best game for a long time

Struggling after that!

Petty had some poor moments in the last quarter but over the course of the game he was okay on Larkey 

4 minutes ago, MurDoc516 said:

Nobody played well (No Chandler PR please

Chandler gets a bad rep on here, think 25 disposals and 3 goals should be praised. Especially when people say he doesn’t score enough etc 

1 minute ago, Red But Mostly Blue said:

Lessons incoming…

I can excuse almost everything. All teams can have an off day. But we 100% yielded to a bottom 4 team.

We are not defined by one match, but today we were pea hearts and I don’t know what we can say about that at the beginning of the season. Round 2. After all the pow wows and culture and what not. All talk. 

I just bought a membership for my little one. So good. 

Yeah I don't think 'soft' calls would be too far wide of the mark today and it really pains me to say it because I don't think anyone who plays the game is a fairy. 

But gee how many missed tackles were there? Not just a few here and there. I'd say we probably stuck 18% of the tackles we attempted. 

In terms of the opponent, that was as bad as 2012/13. Especially with over 10 premiership players out there.

1 minute ago, Pennant St Dee said:

Don’t think it was just the forward line today, yep they were poor but the bombing into F50 where they had the extra number was dumb, Gawn and the midfield overall got absolutely pantsed

But if the forwards actually ran angles and to different spots it would help the mids from bombing it in. 

Trac didn’t look like an elite player all game. Got worse as the game went on. Thank God Clarry didn’t leave.

Just now, Pennant St Dee said:

Don’t think it was just the forward line today, yep they were poor but the bombing into F50 where they had the extra number was dumb, Gawn and the midfield overall got absolutely pantsed

Absolutely, at times we were kicking to a 3 on 1.  The third quarter was especially horrible, they'd make mistakes on the transition and have their whole defence out of kilter.  So what do we do as we're streaming in? Kick it long and high to the goal square again, sometimes not even towards a Demons player. 

Strangely, I’m not losing all hope in spite of how diabolical that was. Just have a feeling we will turn it around. 

2006, lost to Wooden Spooners Carlton round 1 and smashed by the Dogs round 2. Recouped and made a run to the Semis that year.

North rightfully expected to push 8 wins and improve and was hungrier and fit early in the season. 

Not happy with Goodwin and the team, but no use sacking him now. We are good enough on paper to beat Gold Coast and then build from there

Wonder what “learnings” we’ll be taking out of today.

The loss is bad enough.

But we are boring to watch, we are a slow, stop start side that has no strengths outside of contested possessions and when teams matchup it equals a loss. 
it’s been this way for years and Goodwin said we were changing our game plan up and we haven’t changed a single thing. 
I don’t enjoy watching us play, even when we win it’s slow, sluggish and bland, just like the coach wants. 
 

Strap in people cos nothing will change, Essendon will get a top 5 pick from us and we will do it all again next year with the same promises.

3 minutes ago, GCDee said:

Losing happens. You can’t win every game in a competitive competition.

However, we have lost the same way for 3 years… we have no forward half structure or connection, there is zero cohesion it really is a rabble. 

I could take us losing if we lost trying to play a different style but it’s literally been the same [censored] for 3 straight years.. it’s really the square block in a round hole kind of approach and that solely falls onto the footy department and coaching staff, led by Goodwin. He simply cannot front another media conference and spin his [censored]. We have had enough learnings, we are simply just too far behind the 8 ball in game plan. We have wasted the prime of the careers of some very very good players, lucky we fluked a flag I guess along the way. A flag might I add that no one could go to.

 

Agree with everything but we didn’t fluke the flag.

Obviously haven't recovered from hard slog in wet last week. We had to play Campbell on the bench with Max struggling!

Worst games I've seen in a long, long time from Max, Langdon, Viney (he tried), McDonald & Fritsch 

1 minute ago, roy11 said:

Chandler gets a bad rep on here, think 25 disposals and 3 goals should be praised. Especially when people say he doesn’t score enough etc 

If Chandler gets 3 goals in his next 3 games I'll donate $100 to the Jim Stynes foundation.

T Mac must go back to CHF. Put Turner back.

2 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

But if the forwards actually ran angles and to different spots it would help the mids from bombing it in. 

On occasion but Viney just bombs it instantly 

Looking forward to Simon’s sign off later tonight for some positive vibes.

I’m thinking it’s a Spaghetti Marinara kind of night paired with a nice Reisling to compliment the creamy rather than tomato sauce.

Just now, Hopeful Demon said:

That was arguably our single worst performance since Paul Roos' last game as coach.

The scary thing is that I don't even think North were that good. We were just absolutely atrocious on every front. We constantly fumbled, turned it over and failed to stick simple tackles. Our inability to hit a target in the f50 was comical.

I really don't know what year we are in for. All the confidence I gained after the GWS game is gone.

North didn’t play that well. We were basically a VFL standard side in terms of skills and tackling effort. 

2 minutes ago, GCDee said:

Losing happens. You can’t win every game in a competitive competition.

However, we have lost the same way for 3 years… we have no forward half structure or connection, there is zero cohesion it really is a rabble. 

I could take us losing if we lost trying to play a different style but it’s literally been the same [censored] for 3 straight years.. it’s really the square block in a round hole kind of approach and that solely falls onto the footy department and coaching staff, led by Goodwin. He simply cannot front another media conference and spin his [censored]. We have had enough learnings, we are simply just too far behind the 8 ball in game plan. We have wasted the prime of the careers of some very very good players, lucky we fluked a flag I guess along the way. A flag might I add that no one could go to.

 

Lmfao I said that in 22, and 23 on winning the flag in 21 and got attacked for it glad someone else said it...

Just now, DemonOX said:

But if the forwards actually ran angles and to different spots it would help the mids from bombing it in. 

That would help (a lot) however there were several instances today where the forwards had made good position but it got bombed in long anyway. To me that reeks  of a poorly drilled side.

2019

Essendon absolutely rubbing their hands together with the pick coming their way based on todays performance.
 

We are slow and we have very poor skills, not to mention a very ordinary forward line.

Cant see us making the 8 this year.

4 minutes ago, Pennant St Dee said:

Don’t think it was just the forward line today, yep they were poor but the bombing into F50 where they had the extra number was dumb, Gawn and the midfield overall got absolutely pantsed

We didnt get that pantsed. We had more inside 50s. Problem has been the same for many years. Wrong guys call for the ball trying to get stats.  Theres a reason why the opposition coaches let them have the ball.

Wow. Fair to say none of us saw this coming. That last quarter was the most uncompetitive, dispirited and ‘defeated’ I’ve seen this team play since the dark days. Hard to conclude anything other than that there’s something seriously broken about this group’s psychology. That, or its fragility is something extraordinary. The quality of elite players in this team makes it even more worrying. Either way, this will send shockwaves through the club, and obviously the coaching group are going to be in the firing line.